The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-19

occasion he was presented with love cup.
The reporter who wrote the item got the
names of those present confused with
those who participated in the Hudson
Boat Clubs stag excursion to Dorlon s
P ONT yesterday week. The correct list of
those who participated in the dinner is
| appended:
Charles Place, Joseph Flannery, Robert
NJ. Jordan, Charles B. Jordan, Michael
Ne thar, F. W. Ballard, W. t. st. George,
W. F. Taylor, ). ). Behringer, W. S.
Nelson, G. H Winfield, E. F. @. Young,
A. BedelI, Fred Agens, w. A. Jackson,
Hon. Miles Ross, Hon. Henry Harris,
VIM. Jenkins, j. B. ,Vredenburgh, j. D.
McGill. 1t was very recherche affair, and
was gotten up at an expense of about $25
plate. The menu was partic ularly elab-
crate.
City Clerk Scott was telling COED one
the other day of the way in which Tom
dorrison over-reached Principal Lindsey
one time. He was engineering gift for
teacher named Russ, who was about to
leave the city for another engagement, and
by way of encouraging the boys to make
decently liberal contributions, the Princi-
pal volunteered to put in twice as much to
the fund as any single scholar put in. ss1'll
make his head SWIM" said Tom Harrison
to his school friends And at the next ses-
sion of the school he marched up and with
an Tve-got-you-bad air deposited Eve
dollar note in Mr.. Lindsley's hand. The
muni6cence of the gift all but took Mr..
Lindsley's breath away. as he realized it
would cost him ten-dollsr note to redeem
his promise to his class. But he kept his
word, and Mr.. Russ got handsome souv-
enir from the school,
Congressman McAdoo. General Sheridan
and Watts Kearney visited President
Cleveland the other day to urge the rein
statement of Col. 7. P. O'Reilly, of New
ark, to the rank in the Regular Army.
During the war O'Reilly, the noisy East
Newark patriot, was the Colonel of a vol
unteer colored regiment. His service en-
titled him to a position in the Regular
Army, and he was made lieutenant. The
West Point Regulars look with contempt
On the fellows whose merits alone secure
them admission to their charmed circle,
aad they determined to crowd the re-
doubtable East Newark hero out. 1t was
not long before he was hauled up on q SER
les of charges of one kind or another. He
was found guiltless of all the more serious
offenses alleged against him, but was con-
victed on all the trivial of the charges, and
dismissed the service in 1869. He has
since clamored against the court mar
tails finding, and incidentally it was
discovered that a court martial could
not stand unless the evidence
has been reviewed and the findings APP
proved by the President. This course
was not pursued by President Grant, and
there seems to be little doubt that Col:
O'Reilly is entitled 10 his Regular Army
rank and all the emo uments he might
have had from it for the last II years the
latter amounting now to trihs of about
S25,0 GOO. The matter was urged upon the
attention of the President by the gentle
man who visited him the other day. The
President turned, with aversion, from tho
prospect of reading the evidence in the
case, but he resigned himself cheerfully o
the situation, and will enquire into the
matter. If he affirms the finding, the
Colonel's dismissal can be only from now,
and his right to his back pay since 1869
cannot be assailed. The Colonel was
cooked and primed with great Grafton
which he proposed to fire at the President,
but the President persuaded him to post
pone the greatest effort of his life for an
other audience and more opportune occa-
sion.